Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework optimized for programmer happiness and maintaining sustainable productivity. Many things are defined by convention, freeing you from having to re-invent things to stay productive.
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RSpec integration tests for a simple Rails API
The Model is simple. A Player class with three attributes: first_name, last_name, and team_id.
I'm just trying to get a handle on TDD for what will expand into a much more robust API. Below is my ...
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Rails partial inheritance hack
I have a STI table and want to be able to render a collection using
render @collection
with every elements of the collection using their own partial or, if they don't have one, the parent ...
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Multiple ORs in if-else
How do I refactor this in Rails?
if formatted_address.blank? || country.blank? || lat.blank? || lng.blank?
...
end
If I have 10 attributes to check if blank, I don't wanna retype .blank? 10 ...
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normalization fails with first_or_create [closed]
This question is apparently trivial, but I am a newbie in Rails and I can't figure out where I get it wrong. I am populating associated models from an old spreadsheet. Below is a rake import task ...
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Protecting certain model attributes from being exposed in an API
There can be a business or security requirement that certain fields on a model should never be exposed in an API. One approach to this is to tell the developers not to ever put the field in the API ...
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Organizing models/domain logic in a Rails app using Domain Driven Design [closed]
I've been reading up on Domain Driven Design (DDD) and am a little lost on the implementation details. I like the philosophies that I've learned so far. For example, I've seen a lot of code make its ...
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Rails 3 - improving efficiency of unread post functionality - eliminating duplicate queries
I am working on a Rails 3.2.6 app for a friend which has implements some message board functionality. Users can post messages into a categories. Each user also has a list of other users they have ...
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scopes chaining by OR
How can i DRY these scopes?
scope :reputed, -> {
joins{reputations.outer}.
where{['coalesce(rs_reputations.value, 0) > ? OR purchases.force_active = ?', LOWEST_VOTE, true]}
}
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What is your opinion to my cucumber feature for arrangement of record to show top 100 [closed]
What are the scenarios that you can think of?
Is the scenario I wrote fulfill the feature?
Feature: top article listing
In order to figure out which article should go to the cover story as a Chief ...
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Rails: Cleaning parameters before passing them to a model
I'm writing an API and want to be able to pass in the attributes of a model without prefixing them with the name of the model. I wrote this little extension to ActiveRecord in order to make it happen:
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How to create associative hashs in Ruby (on Rails) dynamicly [closed]
I am developing a webapp with Ruby on Rails to expand the features of mite (online time-tracking app) with the help of the offical mite API. Unfortuanaly, the API can't return all projects by a ...
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How render from a FormBuilder
I'm starting Rails and Ruby for a short time. But I try to make it the cleanest way I can.
So, in an attempt to clean my view I try to custom my FormBuilder.
Like this :
# ...
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Rails has_many using finder method in place of :finder_sql
We have a multi-table association in a model, which is something around the lines of:
class MyClass < ActiveRecord::Base
def related_instances
some_class.all(
:select => 'DISTINCT ...
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Trying to improve another if/else statement
Is there a way to optimize the following if/else statement?
if current_user
if current_user.id == @user.id
render 'item'
else
render 'item_friend'
end
else
render 'item'
end
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Is the comparing active record result with array of object in rspec test flexible?
Is the test flexible?
describe "self.sort" do
before(:each) do
@tee = FactoryGirl.create :author, nickname: "tee jia hen", user: FactoryGirl.create(:user)
@jon = FactoryGirl.create ...
